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Socialist Party Socialism event
With increased warnings now of a ‘triple-dip’ recession the need to step up preparations for a 24-hour general strike in Britain was a major theme of the Socialism 2012 weekend of discussion and debate on 3 and 4 November.
TUC demo 20 October 2012, photo Senan
Socialism 2012, photo Senan
Education
March for jobs and education: In the winter of 2010,Cameron, Clegg and their rich mates managed to weather the storm of student protest and forced through the most draconian raft of education ‘reforms’ ever enacted in Britain
20 Socialist students activists marched round Sheffield city centre against tuition fees and to restore EMA, joined by NUT rep, photo Sheffield Socialist Students
Exeter Socialist Students leads campaign to victory
Socialist Students in Exeter did a debt-o-meter on the Campaign to Defeat Fees day of action in 2008, photo Jim THomsom
Attendance Policy campaign launched at UEL
Teacher bashing season continues
Socialist Party workplace news
United action to save all Ford jobs!
National Shop Stewards Network and Socialist Party members have been producing regular bulletins supporting the Ford workers fighting the closure of the Ford plants in Dagenham and Southampton…
Picketing at Fords Dagenham, 18 June 2012, photo Pete Mason
Train cleaners striking for decent pay and conditions
Neath Port Talbot needs fighting unions
Recently I read a headline in the South Wales Evening Post – “Strike fears over council budget” – about Neath Port Talbot council, writes a Unison local government member
London Unite union: Strike threat pays off
Socialist Party news and analysis
Heseltine’s economy report is no solution
The end of October saw the publication of a report by former Tory minister Michael Heseltine on the economy, writes Alex Davidson, Manchester Central TUSC candidate.
Alex Davidson, Manchester Central TUSC candidate 15 November 2012, photo Senan
When is a living wage not a living wage?
ISS picket line at Newcastle Central Station, 10.9.12 , photo by Elaine Brunskill
International socialist news and analysis
USA: ‘Frankenstorm’ leaves massive trail of destruction
End the era of ‘disaster capitalism’: The gigantic ‘Frankenstorm’ hurricane Sandy has put thousands out of their homes, left millions without power, and claimed more than 100 lives across north eastern USA…
The gigantic Frankenstorm hurricane Sandy has put thousands out of their homes, left millions without power, and claimed more than 100 lives across north eastern USA, photo by NASA
Kazakhstan: Vadim Kuramshin facing arrest and new trial
Well-known human rights activist, Vadim Kuramshin, has been arrested and now faces a lengthy prison sentence
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Rotherham needs a workers’ MP instead of New Labour frauds
On Friday 2 November, Blairite Denis MacShane resigned as Labour MP for Rotherham, following a damning report exposing his fraudulent expenses claims, writes Alistair Tice, Yorkshire Socialist Party.
Hull: Socialist policies needed for a real recovery
The recent announcement that we’re out of recession is laughable for most people. The reported 1% growth must be a misprint as the only growth working class people can see is in the income of the 1%!, writes Matt Whale, Hull Socialist Party.
700 strong march in Hull with Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow Marchers and workers from BAE in Brough., photo Paul Callanan
Walsall councillor’s ‘defy cuts’ challenge to Labour
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition-backed Walsall councillor Pete Smith has made a public appeal to the West Midlands borough’s 28 Labour councillors
Hospitals suffer from privatisation debt
Liverpool: Standing against ‘death by cuts’
Bradford’s Hardest Hit lobby council
Far right attack Socialist sellers
Inspiring cycle ride raises £550
Socialist history
October 1992 battle against pit closures
Hundreds of thousands march against vicious Tory government: On 13 October 1992, the then Tory trade secretary, Michael Heseltine, announced the closure of 31 of the 50 deep coal mines that remained in the UK after Thatcher’s closures in the 1980s, writes Mike Forster.
Mary Jackson, formerly of Women Against Pit Closures, photo by Alison Hill
Socialist Party feature
Football: Showing racism the red card
Newspaper sports pages are filled with debate about racism in the ‘beautiful game’ or the ‘ugly game’ as the Sunday Mirror (4 November) now calls football…